THE LITTLE OLD (PARLIAMENTARY) WOMAN, HER (NEWCASTLE PROGRAMME) SHOE,
AND HER IMPORTUNATE CHILDREN.
(An old Nursery Rhyme Re-adapted.)
There was an Old Woman who lived in her Shoe,
She had so many Children she didn't know what to do;
So she gave them some Broth without any Bread,
Then "Whipped" them all up, and—sent them to bed!
["Inspired, as it may be presumed, by the more or less remote prospect of the termination of the Home-Rule debate, the political creditors of the Government are vieing with one another in urging their respective claims to priority of payment."—Morning Post.
"Their bills are the promises of the Newcastle Programme."—Times.]